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Historia de la Musica Rock: Locas

Between working on various writing projects – some fill-in scripting for Batman ’66 (issue 13, out this July!) a few back-up stories for a different comic book based on a TV show, a new graphic novel, and a bananas monthly book/webcomic with the tougher than leather Nate Doyle – I’ve been working on a strange labor of love: a mixtape of every song sung/played/talked about/heard in the original fifty issue run of Love & Rockets “Locas” stories by Jaime Hernandez.

The reason? Well, in addition to being a comics writer, I’m a music writer and journalist (lots of articles for Mojo and other magazines, plus a lot of album liner notes for a lot of different artists, including Dr. John’s Grammy-winning Locked Down). Music is one of my passions, and one day while flipping through some Locas stories it struck me how central music was to the experience of the characters. Or maybe central isn’t the right word – it was ESSENTIAL to their experience, from humming a song on the way to a job to going to a show to hanging out with some friends and listening to a record to cruising the strip in your car to watching TV. It’s all a part of the fabric of the lives of the characters, and it’s a testament to Jaime Hernandez’s storytelling abilities that each song that appears in the story feels natural and right. So yeah – using my galley copy of the giant Locas collection, I began identifying and listing every single goddamn piece of music over the course of 704 pages. Some stuff was annotated in the book, some stuff that wasn’t I knew off the bat, some songs required some creative use of search engines and a couple I had to crowd source, but I believe I got ‘em all.

What’s NOT here: Unfortunately, some of the most essential music in the stories is stuff made by the fictional bands Ape Sex and La Llorona/Missiles of October. Perhaps it’s better this way, because we can all still have our own idea of how awesome/terrible both of those bands are. When we fill it in ourselves it kinda makes the music MORE powerful. Also, there were a couple of instances where characters sang songs of their own invention to themselves. What am I gonna do?

What IS here: Lots of goodies for your listening pleasure. In one instance I made a judgment call – during a scene in the “Death of Speedy” storyline, the character Litos and his friends are chilling in a car listening to some music. The music isn’t identified, but it’s represented by the sound effect of THUMP CLAP THUMP CLAP. Having grown up half-Mexican in Southern California, plus knowing cholos and their musical taste in general, I assumed they could only be listening to one thing: Zapp featuring Roger Troutman. C’mon! The track I chose, “So Ruff, So Tuff” is technically a Roger Troutman solo jam, but it’s all Zapp to me. Also, the last two tracks are bonus; they were featured in a different Jaime story in L&R, but they’re so good I felt they deserved to be included.

(Credit where credit is due: The cover image of the mix – hastily cobbled together by the unskilled elves here at Bitchinville – includes part of Jaime’s cover to Love & Rockets #31.)

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Tracklisting:

Heigh-Ho – The Dwarf Chorus

All Alone in the World – Ebenezer Scrooge

Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto

Car Wash – Rose Royce

Police Story – Black Flag,

Friday on My Mind – The Easybeats

Two Faces Have I - Lou Christie

Death May Be Your Santa Claus – Mott the Hoople

Situations – The Middle Class

Jackson – Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash

So Ruff, So Tuff – Zapp

Valentine – The Replacements

Why Don’t You Love Me Like You Used To? – Hank Williams

You – X

I Am a Cliché – X-Ray Spex

Ay! Mamá Inés – Libertad Lamarque

Tear in My Beer – Hank Williams

Whipping Post – Allman Brothers

Theme From Pee-Wee’s Playhouse – Mark Mothersbaugh

I Can’t Do Anything – X-Ray Spex

Dead End Justice – The Runaways

Doowhutchalike – Digital Underground

Cycling is Fun – Shonen Knife

What’s the Matter With Flintstone? – Fred Flintstone Chorus

Metal Guru – T Rex

Wig Wam Bam – Sweet

Deuce – KISS

Le Freak – Chic

I Wanna Be Sedated – The Ramones

The American in Me – The Avengers

I Am Woman Hear Me Roar – Helen Reddy

Los Luchadores – Conjunto Africa

Space Station #5 – Montrose

Brother Jukebox – Don Everly

Dry Bones – Delta Rhythm Boys

Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel) – Andrews Sisters

Theme From ‘Amazing Three’ – Amazing 3

Entrada Llevatelo – Various Artists

Awesome Foursome – J.J. Evans and Friends

Teenage Kicks – Undertones

Bonus Tracks:

Smash it Up Part 1 – The Damned

Smash it Up Part 2 – The Damned

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calystarose

Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.

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This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.

I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.

After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, “Well, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!” And they’ll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like I’m just now understanding it. Then I explain, “There might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.”

If at any time any of my students ask why one student has a different assignment, or gets taken out of the class for a subject, or gets another teacher to come in and help them throughout the year, I remind my students of the band-aids they got at the start of the school year and they stop complaining. That’s why eight year olds can understand equity.

momo-de-avis

I remember reading somewhere once “we should be speaking of equity instead of equality” and that is a principle that applies here me thinks

postcardsfromspace

Or, in the words of A Wrinkle in Time (the book): “Like and equal are two entirely different things.”

citizenshipandsocialjustice

calystarose

Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.

aloneindarknes7

This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.

momo-de-avis

I remember reading somewhere once “we should be speaking of equity instead of equality” and that is a principle that applies here me thinks

postcardsfromspace

Or, in the words of A Wrinkle in Time (the book): “Like and equal are two entirely different things.”

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If you live in one of these 11 states, you don't have much time left to get your name on the voter rolls.

Arkansas

Arkansas has 18 state Senate seats up for grabs this year, and voter registration for the primaries will end on Monday, April 23. The voter registration deadline for the November general election is Oct. 9.

The state primaries will be held on May 22, with a statewide runoff election held on June 19 for districts where candidates didn’t obtain a majority. Residents will also vote for their governor and four U.S. House of Representatives seats.

Voter application forms can be found here.

Georgia

The state of Georgia will be cutting off voter registration on April 24 and the primary election will also be held on May 22. Residents have until Oct. 9 to register for the November general election.

There are hundreds of important state offices up for grabs in Georgia this year, including governor, all 56 state Senate seats, and all 180 state House slots. Georgia also has 14 U.S. House of Representative seats up for grabs in this year’s elections.

Georgia allows voters to register online or check their registration here.

Idaho

The last day to pre-register for the state primaries in Idaho is April 20 and voter registration for the general election will reopen on May 16, the day after the state primary. Unlike some of the other states mentioned, however, Idaho allows residents to register on election day as well.

There are two U.S. House of Representative seats on Idaho’s ballot this year, along with the state governor election, 35 state Senate and 70 state House seats.

Idaho allows voters to register online or update their current registration here.

Indiana

Primary voting in Indiana will take place on May 8, so voters must be registered by an April 9 deadline. Registration will reopen for the general election on May 22, two weeks after the primary. If residents wish to participate in the November general, their registration will have to be in by Oct. 9.

Indiana has one U.S Senate seat and nine U.S House of Representative seats, along with hundreds of state legislators, on the ballot this year.

Indiana allows voters to register online or check their registration here.

Kentucky

Kentucky’s voter registration deadline for the state primary is April 23, with the election taking place on May 22. Residents have until Oct. 9 to register for the November general election.

There are six U.S. House of Representative seats on the ballot in Kentucky this year, as well as 19 state Senate seats and all 100 of the state House seats.

Kentucky allows voters to register online and update their current registration here.

Nebraska

The deadline for voter registration in Nebraska is April 30, which is fairly generous since the primary election will be held on May 15. General election voters will have until Oct. 19 to fill out voter registration forms.

There is one U.S. Senate seat up for grabs in Nebraska, as well as three U.S. House of Representatives seats on the ballot. Residents will also vote for their governor and 24 state legislature seats.

Nebraska allows voters to register online and update their current registration here.

North Carolina

Voter registration in North Carolina will end on April 13 in preparation for the May 8 primary election. General election voters will have until October 12 to ensure that their registration is filed.

Residents will vote on 13 U.S. House of Representative seats, as well as their entire state legislature.

North Carolina voter registration forms can be printed out here.

Ohio

Ohio’s deadline for voter registration is April 9, a month before the May 8 primary election.

Residents will vote one U.S. senator into office as well as 16 representatives for the U.S. House. Voters will also have to decide on their state governor, 17 state Senate seats and all 99 of their state House representatives.

Ohio allows voters to register and update their current registration here.

Oregon

Voters in Oregon are required to register by April 24 in order to participate in the state’s primaries, which are held on May 15. Residents have until Oct. 16 to register for the state’s general election in November.

There are five open U.S. House of Representative seats to be decided on. The governor’s office, 16 state Senate positions and 60 state House seats are also open.

Oregon allows voters to register and update their current registration here.

Pennsylvania

State primaries will take place in Pennsylvania on May 15, so all residents who want to take part in the election have to register to vote by April 16.

This year’s primaries are especially vital for Pennslyvania since the state Supreme court forced officials to redraw the state’s congressional map. Judges agreed in a 5-2 decision this January that the previous map, drawn by state Republicans, “clearly, plainly and palpably” violated the state’s constitution to give the GOP an electoral advantage.

Pennslyvania voters will have to decide on one U.S. Senate seat and all 18 of the state’s U.S. House of Representative seats. Democrat Conor Lamb, who inched out a win in the state’s 18th congressional district in March’s special election, will be running for the House again in the newly drawn 17th district.

In addition to electing their federal representatives, residents will elect a governor, 25 of their state Senate seats and all 203 of their state House seats.

Pennslyvania allows voters to register and update their current registration here.

West Virginia

The deadline to register to vote in West Virginia’s state primaries is April 17, though residents have until Oct. 16 to sign up for the general election.

Voters will decide on one U.S. Senate seat and three U.S. House of Representative spots. There are also 17 state Senate seats up for grabs, and all 67 districts will have state House of Delegates seats on the ballot this year.

Another important note for West Virginia voters is that the state’s new voter identification law went into effect at the beginning of the year. While all voters should have been mailed a voter ID card, there are several forms of identification that will suffice.

Voters who fail to bring an acceptable ID will still be able to cast a provisional ballot, a spokesperson for the West Virginia Secretary of State office told HuffPost.

West Virginia allows voters to register and update their current registration here.

Got in some draws today. Heavily influenced by some podcasts of #jayandmilesxplainthexmen I have been re-listening to. This podcast does exactly what the name states. They are explaining all of it. I have listened to every one so far and just now started back at the beginning and have been bingeing while driving around while my daughter naps in the car. She’s been a little sickos recently and not sleeping great, so when she falls asleep in the car I just keep going and let the episodes play at 1.5 speed while she naps. What!!?!?!! indeed. Everyone even remotely interested in comics and the X-Men should be listening to this. It has made me realize the influence that late 80s xmen stories and art had on me. Looking back, I must have read so many comics while sitting on the floors of 7-11s and Drug stores, the long boxes that PageTurners used books had, and who knows where else because I know all these xmen and xmen related comics, way more than a kid between the ages of 8-16 ever could have paid for. Probably devoured trades while sitting on the floor of a BD dalton in some mall in NE also. Well, that was a whole lot of words. That’s what sleep deprivation will get ya. You’re welcome #ink #illustration #drawmostdays #rachelsummersphoenix #scottslimsummers #cyclops #rachelsummers #xmenphoenix #xmen

#cyclops #scottslimsummers #ink #xmenphoenix #xmen #rachelsummers #rachelsummersphoenix #jayandmilesxplainthexmen #illustration #drawmostdays

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This is one of my all time favorite covers. It’s byJoost Swarte from Raw vol. 1 #2, with colors by Françoise Mouly, 1980.

benito-cereno

Okay, so:

Latin has this word, sic. Or, if we want to be more diacritically accurate, sīc. That shows that the i is long, so it’s pronounced like “seek” and not like “sick.”

You might recognize this word from Latin sayings like “sic semper tyrannis” or “sic transit gloria mundi.” You might recognize it as what you put in parentheses when you want to be pass-agg about someone’s mistakes when you’re quoting them: “Then he texted me, ‘I want to touch you’re (sic) butt.’”

It means, “thus,” which sounds pretty hoity-toity in this modren era, so maybe think of it as meaning “in this way,” or “just like that.” As in, “just like that, to all tyrants, forever,” an allegedly cool thing to say after shooting a President and leaping off a balcony and shattering your leg. “Everyone should do it this way.”

Anyway, Classical Latin somewhat lacked an affirmative particle, though you might see the word ita, a synonym of sic, used in that way. By Medieval Times, however, sic was holding down this role. Which is to say, it came to mean yes.

Ego: Num edisti totam pitam?

Tu, pudendus: Sic.

Me: Did you eat all the pizza?

You, shameful: That’s the way it is./Yes.

This was pretty well established by the time Latin evolved into its various bastard children, the Romance languages, and you can see this by the words for yes in these languages.

In Spanish, Italian, Asturian, Catalan, Corsican, Galician, Friulian, and others, you say si for yes. In Portugese, you say sim. In French, you say si to mean yes when you’re contradicting a negative assertion (”You don’t like donkey sausage like all of us, the inhabitants of France, eat all the time?” “Yes, I do!”). In Romanian, you say da, but that’s because they’re on some Slavic shit. P.S. there are possibly more Romance languages than you’re aware of.

But:

There was still influence in some areas by the conquered Gaulish tribes on the language of their conquerors. We don’t really have anything of Gaulish language left, but we can reverse engineer some things from their descendants. You see, the Celts that we think of now as the people of the British Isles were Gaulish, originally (in the sense that anyone’s originally from anywhere, I guess) from central and western Europe. So we can look at, for example, Old Irish, where they said tó to mean yes, or Welsh, where they say do to mean yes or indeed, and we can see that they derive from the Proto-Indo-European (the big mother language at whose teat very many languages both modern and ancient did suckle) word *tod, meaning “this” or “that.” (The asterisk indicates that this is a reconstructed word and we don’t know exactly what it would have been but we have a pretty damn good idea.)

So if you were fucking Ambiorix or whoever and Quintus Titurius Sabinus was like, “Yo, did you eat all the pizza?” you would do that Drake smile and point thing under your big beefy Gaulish mustache and say, “This.” Then you would have him surrounded and killed.

Apparently Latin(ish) speakers in the area thought this was a very dope way of expressing themselves. “Why should I say ‘in that way’ like those idiots in Italy and Spain when I could say ‘this’ like all these cool mustache boys in Gaul?” So they started copying the expression, but in their own language. (That’s called a calque, by the way. When you borrow an expression from another language but translate it into your own. If you care about that kind of shit.)

The Latin word for “this” is “hoc,” so a bunch of people started saying “hoc” to mean yes. In the southern parts of what was once Gaul, “hoc” makes the relatively minor adjustment to òc, while in the more northerly areas they think, “Hmm, just saying ‘this’ isn’t cool enough. What if we said ‘this that’ to mean ‘yes.’” (This is not exactly what happened but it is basically what happened, please just fucking roll with it, this shit is long enough already.)

So they combined hoc with ille, which means “that” (but also comes to just mean “he”: compare Spanish el, Italian il, French le, and so on) to make o-il, which becomes oïl. This difference between the north and south (i.e. saying oc or oil) comes to be so emblematic of the differences between the two languages/dialects that the languages from the north are called langues d’oil and the ones from the south are called langues d’oc. In fact, the latter language is now officially called “Occitan,” which is a made-up word (to a slightly greater degree than that to which all words are made-up words) that basically means “Oc-ish.” They speak Occitan in southern France and Catalonia and Monaco and some other places.

The oil languages include a pretty beefy number of languages and dialects with some pretty amazing names like Walloon, and also one with a much more basic name: French. Perhaps you’ve heard of it, n'est-ce pas?

Yeah, eventually Francophones drop the -l from oil and start saying it as oui. If you’ve ever wondered why French yes is different from other Romance yeses, well, now you know.

I guess what I’m getting at is that when you reblog a post you like and tag it with “this,” or affirm a thing a friend said by nodding and saying “Yeah, that”: you’re not new

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The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble

“Whether the Andrea Gail rolls, pitch-poles, or gets driven down, she winds up, one way or another, in a position from which she cannot recover. Among marine architects this is known as the zero-moment point – the point of no return.” –Sebastian Junger, “The Perfect Storm”

Posts like this aren’t my usual fare, but there’s a lot of readers on Tumblr. So y’all might be interested – or, if not, you really should be.

On Monday, this went down:

That’s the bloodless, matter-of-fact, ho-hum business event way of describing it. Let me paint you a different picture.

On Monday morning, every single Barnes & Noble location – that’s 781 stores – told their full-time employees to pack up and leave. The eliminated positions were as follows: the head cashiers (those are the people responsible for handling the money), the receiving managers (the people responsible for bringing in product and making sure it goes where it should), the digital leads (the people responsible for solving Nook problems), the newsstand leads (the people responsible for distributing the magazines), and the bargain leads (the people responsible for keeping up the massive discount sections). A few of the larger stores were able to spare their head cashiers and their receiving managers, but not many.

Just about everyone lost between 3 and 7 employees. The unofficial numbers put the total around 1,800 people.

People.

We’re not talking post-holiday culling of seasonal workers. This was the Red Wedding. Every person laid off was a full-time employee. These were people for whom Barnes & Noble was a career. Most of them had given 5, 10, 20 years to the company. In most cases it was their sole source of income.

There was no warning.

But it gets worse.

Keep reading

Just some rando draws from the last month or so

#drawmostdays #storm #xmen #illustration

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WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN CAPS

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spaceshiprocket

Comic book artists self portraits part one (part two, part three) :

- Neal Adams

- Jordi Bernet

- John Buscema

- Sal Buscema

- Gene Colan

- Will Eisner

- Jack Kirby

- Joe Kubert

- John Romita Sr.

- Alex Toth

bigskydreaming

Guys, please be careful to vet that what you choose to signal boost is actually accurate. I’m seeing a lot of well-intentioned posts today about Net Neutrality that are likely to do just as much harm as good due to misinformation in them.

For instance, we are not all suddenly shouting that the sky is falling because the FCC has PASSED the bill abolishing Net Neutrality and the changes are to be put in place some time this month. As claimed by one post I just saw with over 5,000 notes already. This is simply, unequivocally NOT true, and it can actually get in the way of the call to action that very post made, asking people to call and email their congressmen, because a lot of people who see that might think “what’s the point, if its already passed?”

It hasn’t. Chairman Ajit Pai of the FCC unveiled in April his proposed plan to strike back the Net Neutrality regulations Obama’s administration passed in 2015, and which have since 2015 been upheld by the courts in the face of Republican opposition’s attempts to claim they overreached. What has people shouting the sky is falling NOW is because yesterday (November 21st) is when the date of the official vote on this proposed plan was announced. That date is December 14th.

Which means there IS still time to affect the outcome of the vote. People are pessimistic about the chances of this vote because the FCC board is held by a Republican majority at the moment, but make the passing of this bill seem toxic enough to other Republican interests and there is still a chance to keep it from passing.

Which is still a hell of a lot better than assuming the bill has already passed and that there’s really no point.

We have until December 14th to kick up enough of a fuss that the Republicans on the FCC board think twice about voting for this bill. And even after that, there are still legal recourses. The courts have refused to uphold other bills Trump’s administration has attempted to pass as overreaching, unconstitutional, and/or in opposition of the true will of the people - just as the Republicans attempted to do back in 2015 when the FCC under Obama passed the Net Neutrality laws in the first place.

This does not mean be complacent. This does not mean assume enough other people will raise enough of a fuss without adding your voice to the mix. It simply means THERE IS STILL TIME TO ACT. The sky may be falling, but until it finishes falling, there’s still a chance to catch it instead.

afishtrap

We have until December 14th to kick up enough of a fuss that the Republicans on the FCC board think twice about voting for this bill.

there IS still time to affect the outcome of the vote.

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zonanegativa

brianmichaelbendis

Futurama en versión X-Men por Carl Broaddus

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My new 70-page autobio comic about moving to LA and starting in animation is now online!! I also posted LOTS of helpful links at the bottom of the page for anyone interested in story art or a career in animation. Follow the link to read more~ http://homeiswheretheinternetis.blogspot.com/2017/09/animation.html

comicsworkbook

Juan Fernandez shares a great list of episodes from an old French TV show called Tac au Tac which ran from 1969-75. (Pictured above, a scene from the show - Neal Adams, Meobius (Jean Giraud), Joe Kubert on TAC AU TAC – September 30th, 1972)

“From the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, Jean Frappat presented a show that was a joy to watch, Tac au Tac. Based on the concept of exquisite corpses so dear to the surrealists, the show generally set up two, three or even four cartoonists to compete in a friendly drawing match.

The concept was simple, efficient, and allowed for many variations: A huge, blank white page and cartoonists equipped with just a simple marker. A theme was proposed (ex. invasion or pursuit), sometimes a visual starting point (simple line, spiral, circle), and the authors improvised, either collaboratively with their peers, or in a duel facing off against their opponents. The result was often far more than a juxtaposition of drawings, it was often a real visual dialogue between cartoonists.” Read more on Comics Workbook: http://comicsworkbook.com/tac-au-tac/

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